http://www.melbourne.anglican.com.au/main.php?pg=news&news_id=20801&s=157

President Barack Obama urged Islamic nations to recognise the importance of religious freedom and democratic values in his Cairo speech on 4 June, but he failed to take a hard line on repressive laws, according to the chairwoman of a religious freedom watchdog panel, Religion News Service reports.

Felice Gaer, the chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, nonetheless commended Obama for voicing strong support for protecting religious minorities.

"All I'm saying is he could have sprinkled (his speech) with a few more examples of problems and what the U.S. is doing to solve them," Gaer said of Obama's speech. "This is not America versus the Muslim world; these are universal values that we are trying to uphold at home and abroad."